Independent Press Top 40 Best Sellers

For the week ending

Sunday, February 15th, 2026

The Independent Publishers Caucus & NEIBA proudly presents the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers! In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, this new bestseller list identities the top titles from independent presses as represented at independent bookstores across the US.

FICTION

1. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, 9780802165176
2. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, 9781945492600
3. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, 9780802158741
4. Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Europa Editions, 9798889661115
5. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, 9780393356250
6. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, 9780802163622
7. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118966
8. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Rabih Alameddine, Grove Press, 9780802166470
9. Writers & Lovers
Lily King, Grove Press, 9780802148544
10. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, 9781646222384
11. The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller, Europa Editions, 9798889661566
12. You Better Be Lightning
Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry, 9781943735990
13. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition
Paula Lafferty, Erewhon Books, 9781645662891
14. Kindred
Octavia E. Butler, Beacon Press, 9780807083697
15. Foster
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, 9780802160140
16. Go as a River
Shelley Read, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118638
17. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, 9780393356687
18. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, 9781609450786
19. Startlement: New and Selected Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, 9781639550517
20. Trad Wife: A Novel
Saratoga Schaefer, Crooked Lane Books, 9798892424721
21. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series)
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, King's Hollow, 9781916926585
22. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
Beth Brower, Rhysdon Press, 9780998063614
23. Women of a Promiscuous Nature
Donna Everhart, Kensington, 9781496740724
24. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Limited Edition (Gods and Monsters #1)
Amber V. Nicole, Kensington, 9781496758040
25. Wicked Onyx (Special Edition): A Dark Academia Romantasy (The Veritas Legacy #1)
Debbie Cassidy, Page & Vine, 9781964264295
26. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, 9780802160850
27. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, 9780802162731
28. Wuthering Heights (Word Cloud Classics)
Emily Bronte, Canterbury Classics, 9781667209807
29. The Hitch
Sara Levine, Roxane Gay Books, 9780802165923
30. The Wolf and His King: Deluxe Limited Edition
Finn Longman, Erewhon Books, 9781645663072
31. Canticle
Janet Rich Edwards, Spiegel & Grau, 9781966302056
32. Carmilla Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula
Sheridan Le Fanu, Pushkin Press, 9781805332121
33. I Hope You Find What You're Looking For: A Novel
Bsrat Mezghebe, Liveright, 9781324092490
34. Of Monsters and Mainframes
Barbara Truelove, Bindery Books, 9781964721132
35. Tangerinn
Emanuela Anechoum, Europa Editions, 9798889661603
36. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.), Nightboat Books, 9781643620060
37. Autobiography of Cotton: A Novel
Cristina Rivera Garza, Graywolf Press, 9781644453698
38. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2
Beth Brower, Rhysdon Press, 9780998063621
39. When the Museum Is Closed: A Novel
Emi Yagi, Soft Skull, 9781593768270
40. Call Me Ishmaelle
Xiaolu Guo,Grove Press, Black Cat, 9780802166494

NONFICTION

1. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, 9781324094647
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, 9781571313560
3. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade, Verso, 9781839762123
4. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, 9781937006884
5. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
Ursula K. Le Guin, Library of America, 9781598538298
6. The Company of Owls: A Memoir
Polly Atkin, Milkweed Editions, 9781639551804
7. Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, 9780807014271
8. How to Love: Hardcover Gift Edition (Mindfulness Essentials #13)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, 9781888375565
9. P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Duke University Press, 9781478033332
10. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, 9781631496080
11. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records, 9781913484750
12. On Love
Joseph Campbell, New World Library, 9781955831123
13. Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in a Timeplace of Collapse
Norma Kaweloku Wong, North Atlantic Books, 9798889843214
14. Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Kelly Hayes (Ed.), AK Press, 9781849355841
15. A Black Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
C. Riley Snorton, Darius Bost, Beacon Press, 9780807008553
16. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118904
17. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, 9781631494536
18. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Haymarket Books, 9781642598278
19. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, 9780802124739
20. A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.), Verso, 9781804290446
21. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Oregon State University Press, 9780870714993
22. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Helen Whybrow, Milkweed Editions, 9781571311627
23. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, 9798888904510
24. The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
Ph.D. Vesely-Flad, Rima, North Atlantic Books, 9798889842583
25. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Hu AnYan, Astra House, 9781662603044
26. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, 9781952692994
27. Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur, Lawrence Hill Books, 9781556520747
28. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118461
29. Puerto Rico: A National History
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, Princeton University Press, 9780691231297
30. On Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt, Library of America, 9781598537918
31. The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon, Grove Press, 9780802158635
32. Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life
Roxie Nafousi, Chronicle Prism, 9781797221304
33. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Anton Jäger, Verso, 9781836742074
34. Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin, Beacon Press, 9780807006238
35. One Aladdin Two Lamps
Jeanette Winterson, Grove Press, 9780802167118
36. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson,  Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis, Haymarket Books, 9781608465644
37. Constitution of the United States
Founding Fathers, Applewood Books, 9781557091055
38. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, 9781941529089
39. Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering
Joseph Nguyen, Authors Equity, 9798893310153
40. The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, 9781771642484